Saturday, September 11, 2010

Okay ladies and gentlemen, another trailer for you, this time for the upcoming Reel Rock Tour. If anything, just watch the first ten seconds. Something about a guy more or less "sprinting" up a 60+ degree slope on his front points just gets me pumped. Sure there are great videos out there of guys sending some seriously difficult boulder problems and sport routes, but moving quickly over steep mountainous terrain is just so much cooler in my mind. I guess that make me an alpinist.

Well, I'm not sure if I posted this one before or not, but I've been feeling pretty homesick lately and the Red River Gorge used to be my "home crag" (I'm from Michigan...). Here's a great video of some of our sport's best sport climbers going at it in the Gorge.

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